Correspondence between Pvt. Daniel Faust, his mother, and his sister of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. Faust was an infantryman in Pennsylvania's 95th and 96th Infantry regiments during the Civil War. Correspondence covers the routine details of...

Carte-de-visite of Rebecca, Charlie & Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans was taken at a school for emancipated slaves. According to an article in Harper's Weekly in 1864, the children had been set free by General Benjamin F. Butler in New...

Special mortgage taken by Francis (Francois) Duplessis (b. 1786 in New Orleans) on twenty two slaves. This mortgage, held by the Union Bank of Louisiana, replaces a previous mortgage on thirty one slaves.